Ok, I don't know if this is serious or not, but when I ran the Dawn Demo with my BFG 6800GT (61.71) at stock speeds, I get some artifacts on Dawn's Face. Also when I tried Call of Duty today, the colors just weren't right. All of the sudden half the map turns from white to yellow (for one second, this happens constantly). Lastly, when I played Thief: Deadly Shadows, I get small green artifacts on the screen. I am using Winxp SP2 with DX9.0C installed. So, is there something wrong with my drivers or card? Opinions appreciated.

edisonwu

07-04-04, 01:31 AM

are you overclocking you GT?
it may cause problems when you run some games. I did.

Azzkikr1337

07-04-04, 02:16 AM

I did some overclocking for benchmark testing, but the artifacts justs stay there. Underclocking is the same situation.... Maybe a driver issue? I'm now running at stock speeds. cpu is a total bottleneck (2.6C)

Bill The Cat

07-04-04, 02:28 AM

Have you tried changing drivers? The 61.71s gave me some problems which were fixed with the 61.36s.

It seems each 6800 has its own personality, for better or worse.

Ruined

07-04-04, 02:33 AM

dx9.0c is giving some problems, might want to wait until official nvidia drivers are out. Should be this week to coincide with fc sm3.0 patch.

I'd bet if you ran your card with dx9.0b and the drivers it came with on the CD it might work fine.

Azzkikr1337

07-04-04, 11:59 AM

ok, I might as well wait for the official release, in the mean time, I'll get used to the artifacts.

edisonwu

07-04-04, 04:02 PM

get used to it , and you will find artifact is a part of the 3D world.......

Headbust

07-04-04, 04:10 PM

unless he OC'd the RAM way to much without going up in increments and damaged it!

gsgrunt

07-04-04, 04:11 PM

get used to it , and you will find artifact is a part of the 3D world.......

???? :screwy:
What 3D world do you live in? Artifacts are not normal or acceptable.

Headbust

07-04-04, 04:12 PM

???? :screwy:
What 3D world do you live in. Artifacts are not normal or acceptable.

yes it is normal if you are in the ATI 3d world :retard:

DivotMaker

07-04-04, 04:34 PM

yes it is normal if you are in the ATI 3d world :retard:

:rolleyes:

ChrisRay

07-04-04, 04:38 PM

Come on guys. Lets try and help him rather than post flame bait material.

How high did you push your memory? How high did you push your core?

Also. You may to consider the worse and think the card might just be bad.

shinrai

07-04-04, 04:53 PM

DONOT get used to the artifacts! There could be something seriously wrong somewhere and you need to find the answer now just in case you damage the core/ram.

What are your case temps etc?

ssj4goku887

07-04-04, 05:01 PM

stop flaming ati ive had a 9800 pro card overclocked alot with 0 artifacts and it worked great sooooo dont ever talk bad about ati again both nvidia and ati are great companies

Azzkikr1337

07-06-04, 05:40 PM

well, I did some testing, and my conclusion was yes DX9.0C had some bugs that kept giving me artifacts. Now I do DX9.0b, no more artifacts on Dawn. NOW, this is what I think the major reason 6800GT wasn't doing well. I was testing it on a Raptor 74GB 10K rpm. I don't know what went wrong with that drive, but it recently detected the 6800GT as a PCI after I applied some AS5, then today when I was reinstalling XP and rebooting, the hard drive died (CURSE YOU WDC :@:@). Only in service for 3 months. Now I'm back to the regular 7200rpm drive (Maxtor 200GB), and whola, it's detected as AGP 8X, and Nalu demo has no artifacts. I'm gonna have to be careful with that 10k stuff. It's just been giving me headaches. As for the AS5 on the GT, dunno if it will help the temps

[BB] Rick James

07-06-04, 07:26 PM

Guys I’m having the same problems. I’ve ran both SP1 (DirectX 9.0b) and SP2 (DirectX 9.0C) and I’m still getting the graphical issues. The games that the issues are present in are FarCry, UT2004, Pain Killer (not as bad or as much) and Battlefield Vietnam.

Here are the threads I have started on the topic at hand.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=773898

http://ut2k4.com/showthread.php?t=224

It’s not just me for others are having the same issues.

In my case what do you guys think? Do you think it’s still a driver/directX 9.0 issue or is my issue my card?

GravY

07-06-04, 11:27 PM

well, I did some testing, and my conclusion was yes DX9.0C had some bugs that kept giving me artifacts. Now I do DX9.0b, no more artifacts on Dawn. NOW, this is what I think the major reason 6800GT wasn't doing well. I was testing it on a Raptor 74GB 10K rpm. I don't know what went wrong with that drive, but it recently detected the 6800GT as a PCI after I applied some AS5, then today when I was reinstalling XP and rebooting, the hard drive died (CURSE YOU WDC :@:@). Only in service for 3 months. Now I'm back to the regular 7200rpm drive (Maxtor 200GB), and whola, it's detected as AGP 8X, and Nalu demo has no artifacts. I'm gonna have to be careful with that 10k stuff. It's just been giving me headaches. As for the AS5 on the GT, dunno if it will help the temps

read somewhere that BFG uses AS5 on their cores already..

sonyman

07-06-04, 11:54 PM

read somewhere that BFG uses AS5 on their cores already..
They do lol. What a waste of a warranty for him to have done that!